Player/Type Collections

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Friday, July 31, 2015

National Sports Collectors Show 2015, day two (Thursday) highlights

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As time and tide wait for no man, neither do your feet adjust to hours of pounding around the robust concrete floors of Rosemont's conve...
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Thursday, July 30, 2015

National Sports Collectors Show 2015 : Day one highlights

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"I just spent all morning flying to Chicago and boy are my jokes tired." Welcome to suburban Chicago (aka, Rosemont), hom...
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, and Goudey's Knot Hole League membership kit

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How's baseball going for you this year? As we creep closer to the 2015 All-Star Game, I'm stalking the water cooler for trade deadli...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

1963 Sport Hobbyist Famous Baseball Cards #5, Jack Barry

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In the mid-60s, advanced collector and sometimes-dealer Frank Nagy published one of the first collecting magazines,  Sport Hobbyist . It fit...
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Saturday, June 13, 2015

1968 Venezuelan Baseball #5, NL Home Run Leaders (Hank Aaron, Jim Wynn,Ron Santo, Willie McCovey)

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A while back, I broke down the 1950-70s Venezuelan sets that started as Topps partnerships and evolved into local knockoffs of American issu...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

1976 Caruso Sacramento Solons Baseball #5, Bob Jones

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Bob Jones the ball player or Bob Jones, your dad's bowling friend? Bob Jones could be anyone at first glance, so it's worth reading ...
Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Happy Pinky May Day!

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Welcome a new baseball holiday for 2015: I christened May 5 as Pinky May Day, given its nice confluence of fives. Pinky played third ba...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

1977 Caruso PCL Hawaii Islanders Baseball #5, Luis Melendez (and more Dave Roberts)

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For all the bicentennial bunting used on its 1976 cards ( #5 Dave Roberts profile ), Caruso returned to a more familiar black and white in 1...